Access to the College Green area of campus will be restricted until further notice. Current students, faculty and staff with a valid Penn card may enter and exit Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center through the Rosengarten Undergraduate Study Center on the ground floor, and may enter and exit the Fisher Fine Arts Library through the 34th Street entrance to Meyerson Hall

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Wedding ring surmounted by a symbolic house Italy, 17th century

The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In

The domestic life of Jews, their homes, houses, and households, was the subject of research for the 2019-20 Katz Center Fellows. 

Above: Wedding ring surmounted by a symbolic house Italy, 17th century. Inscribed in Hebrew inside the band: "mazal tov." The Stieglitz Collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Courtesy of the Israel Museum Jerusalem. Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

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Collage: "Boulevard Mohammed V, Casablanca"

Jews in Modern Islamic Contexts

The study of Jewish life in modern Islamic contexts during the 2018-19 Fellowship year at the Katz Center delved into the meaning of modernity in North Africa, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, as well as Central and South Asia.

Above: Yigal S. Nizri, "Boulevard Mohammed V, Casablanca"

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Photo showing a group of Bedouins in front of one of their homes.

In Sight: Seeing the People of the Holy Land

With photographs selected from the Lenkin Family Collection, the exhibition presents the role of people in 19th-century Holy Land photography and the ways in which their visual representations met or challenged 19th-century conventions about the Holy Land.

Above: Bedouins, photographed by Luigi Fiorello (1847–1898)

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